AKARI | LIVE | Shepard Park | Lake George

The Lake George Arts Project Summer Concert Series continues on Wednesday, August 9, 2023.

AKARI

If you’re looking for an example of the caliber of musicians the Lake George Summer Concert Series attracts, look no further than AKARI. This award-winning electroacoustic duo has inspired audiences worldwide through their genre-defying string music. Graduates of The Juilliard School, their past engagements have included performances at The MET, Joe’s Pub, City Winery, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. 

Recent highlights include opening for Oscar and Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste at NYC’s Javits Center. The Museum of Chinese in America commissioned ARKAI to compose a work for the exhibition “Responses: Asian Americans Resisting the Tides of Racism.” ARKAI is also a winner of the 2021 Astral Artists National Competition.

In addition to performing, ARKAI creates artistic programs that connect and uplift communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, their initiative, SupportNYC, helped raise over $80,000 in monetary support for small businesses and organizations like the MET Orchestra Musicians, Harmony Project, D’Addario Foundation, and Shakespeare Dallas through fundraising performances, spreading hope and healing to communities across the country through the power of the arts.

ARKAI was recently honored with the 2021 Robert Sherman Music Education and Community Outreach Award presented by WQXR, The Juilliard School, and The Harold W. McGraw Family Foundation in recognition of their work through SupportNYC.